Whole 30

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klanders88 wrote:

Is anyone else familiar with the Whole 30?

I’ve done 3 resets, my last one being in January ..and then a few weeks later I got pregnant! Then food aversions and nausea and now I’m just eating horribly. I’m finally eating veggies again, taking my prenatal, trying to drink enough water, take collagen in my coffee... but sweets and carbs and processed junk have found their way back into my diet and I know that not pregnant they make me feel horribly so ..time to clean this ish up!

So I’m getting to do a May Whole 30... just ordered the day by day guide on amazon and will need to stock up on some things. Mostly worried about slaying my sugar dragon while dealing with preggo cravings and being tired. But I’m hoping I can get through it and focus on nutrition. Will probably doing more smaller meals instead of three big ones, plus maybe a smoothie here and there.

I’m 13 weeks now will be 14 weeks at the start so finally in the second trimester...annnd I have a 3.5 year old haha!

I would love to join you in May. I need to because I have been HORRIBLE with my nutrition which isn’t like me. But finally got my appetite and now I just stopped caring.

I love whole 30. It’s going to take a lot of will power but I know I will be happier and baby and I will both be healthier doing it. We can connect on social media or I will bookmark this convo thread to stay connected

Let me know how it goes! I’ve done this before and felt amazing but hesitant to try something so restrictive while pregnant. I’m 16w now and finally getting over the food aversions, but I’m unsure if I could dive into this as strictly as it is outlined. I’ve been doing a decent amount of certain dairies for protein, and also breads/grains.

I’m slowly starting to cut out a lot of the crappy packaged junk food/fast food that creeped back in, but it’s a day to day thing lol. I hadn’t put sugar in my coffee in maybe 2.5 years since doing whole30, and once I got preggo and my tastebuds changed, sugar and regular dairy milk it was! Ugh

Hey!! So today is Day 1! I’m so ready. I’m on instagram @ wholeymoleymom - and I post mostly about w30 there :)

But to get enough food...I’m not going to be focusing on having three meals and no snacks like the original plan. There is info in the book and on the website (annnd the ‘healthy mama happy baby’ part!) where they talk about both pregnancy and nursing. Basically up your healthy fat and carbohydrates..lower your protein a bit...more smaller meals, some snacks are ok, smoothies when you need it. That doesn’t mean just graze all day and overeat ... but make sure you have enough energy, while not going from starving to super full. Make sense?

A pregnant (or nursing) whole 30 will be different than a ‘normal’ one. And so should your expectations. It’s never supposed to be about weight loss, but that’s especially true now. I’m just looking to be done with eating too many carbs and junk from the first trimester with issues of food aversions and nausea...which has turned into just lazy and addictive eating. And, to focus on nutrition and setting myself (& baby) up for a better chance at a healthier rest of pregnancy, labor & delivery (even though I’m scheduling a repeat c-section after having an emergency one last time) ..recovery and postpartum. Then way later once nursing is second nature and baby is starting on food...then I’ll focus more on lowering carbs (& maybe doing paleo Keto with some intermittent fasting!?)

Glad to see this post being updated and what everyone is doing! I think I’m going to start next week. I’m 17w today and did my first glucose test yesterday.

Def trying to taper out a lot of the refined carbs, dairy, and sugar that found their way back into my diet from first trimester, but my migraines have also seemed to come back a bit- don’t want to eliminate everything and struggle with that. So each day this week I plan on doing less and less, so hopefully by next Monday I will be good to go 100%

Doing the 6 small meals a day as per advice from my doc though. The 3 meals only may not help the headaches unfortunately.